Supreme Court of India

Tahsildar Singh and Another v. The State of Uttar Pradesh

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Reported as [1959] SUPP. 2 S.C.R. 875

Bench Bhuvneshwar Prasad Sinha J.

Decided 5 May 1959

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What the Court ordered

In the result, we confirm the judgment of the High Court and dismiss the appeal.

Judgment, page 35

From the headnote

Criminal Trial-Police Statements-Use of--Omission, when amounts to contradiction-Code of Criminal Procedure, I898 (V of I898), s. I62-Indian Evidence Act, I872 (I of I872), s. I45· music performance attended by a large number of persons including two police informers Bankey and Asa Ram. was going on on a platform in front of the house of one Ram Saroop. At that time there was a full moon and the light of a gas lamp and se veral lanterns. The informers had placed their guns on a cot close to the platform and one Bharat Singh was sitting on that cot. The accused along with 15 or 20 persons

Authorities it was built on

1959 Dr. B. K. Pal Chaudhry v. The State Oe Assam cited by 20

Where later benches applied it

2025 Rahil & Anr. v. State (govt. of N.C.T. of Delhi) relied on
2024 Alauddin & Ors. v. The State of Assam & Anr. relied on
2020 Tofan Singh v. State of Tamil Nadu followed
2019 Durgabai Deshmukh Memorial Sr. Sec. School & Anr. v. Vasu Sena & Anr. followed
2025 The State of Madhya Pradesh v. Balveer Singh referred to
2022 Vijay Madanlal Choudhary & Ors. v. Union of India & Ors. referred to
2022 Shahaja @ Shahajan Ismail Mohd. Shaikh v. State of Maharashtra referred to

Of those, 2 relied on · 2 followed · 3 referred to

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